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APPLICATION FILED OCT.6,1910.1

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URPOSESx Patented July 4, 1911.

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of which the following is UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HANS KEMPINSKI, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES W. SAALBURG, OF NEW YORK, NL'Y.

EXHIBITING-SHOW FOR WINDOW-DECORATION AND SIMILAR PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 4, 1911. Application filed October 6, 1910. Serial No. 585,573.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS KEMPINSKI, a subject of the King of Prussia, residing at Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Exhibiting-Shows for VVindow-Decoration and Similar Purposes,

a specification.

My invention relates to that class of exhibiting shows which may be arranged in the windows of business places, in exhibition halls or like places to attract the attention of the persons on the street.

y invention comprises a bottle suspended or placed with the mouth downward to allow its contents to How out, a receptacle or vessel of any kind located below said bottle to receive the liquid pouring out from the bottle, and a conduit forming a passage from the said receptacle to the said bottle and being connected to a driving means such as a pump or the like, to force the liquid back from the receptacle into the bottle to pour out therefrom in a continuous current'with out any interruption as long as the said driving means is in operation. It is essential that the said conduit be so located and arranged as to be embedded in the stream of liquid. flowing down from the bottle and consequently to be invisible to the spectators. A very surprising and wonderful effect is thereby attained.

Instead of a bottle I can of course use a vessel stead of a liquid, such as wine, soda-water, beer, coffee or the like, I can also employ a solid substance such as powdered sugar, flourshown in Fig. 1 with some accessory devices.

In the drawings A represents the receptacle for receiving the liquid flowing out from the bottle B Fig. 1, or the powder dropping in a continual stream from the vessel B, Fig. 2. The bottle may be sus pended by strings C and the vessel B may be supported by brackets C, or in any other suitable manner. The receptacle A is carried by a table or the like, not shown- The liquid in Fig. 1 or the powder in Fig. 2 is of which terminates in the mouth of the bottle B or vessel B and the lower end below or in the receptacle A. Accordin to Fig. 1 the pipe D asses through the ottom of the receptac egA to a pump E and from there back to the bottom of the receptacle at F to conduct the liquid flowing into the receptacle down to the pump E. The latter is operated by any suitable source of The upper portion of the conduit D is preferably made of glass of the same color as that of curved as to correspond with the curve of the pouring liquid. Consequently the glass isthoroughly hidden and concealed in the liquid which flows from the bottle and the sight of the liquid pouring out incessantly from the bottle affords a or the like without thereby departing from great attraction, as the return of the liquid the gist of my invention. to the'bottle cannot be seen.

My invention also comprises all the par- In the modificationshown in Fig. 2 the ticular constructions and arrangements necpowdered substance, say sugar, flowing cssary to carry out the above described idea or principle, which I will now proceed to describe with reference to the drawings, which are of more or less diagrammatic nature and in which- F igure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of an arrangement constructed in accordance with my invention to show a continual current of a liquor, say red wine. Fig. 2 is a similar View of an arrangement constructed in accordance with my through the outlet B in the bottom of the vessel B, is likewise returned to the latter by way of the pipe D and a feeding screw G arranged therein. In this case the pipe is colored white on the outside to correspond to the color of the sugar which flows out in a broad stream around the pipe thereby concealing latter from, the spectator. The feed screw'G is driven by means of a beveled with or fast on the axis J being in mesh with a pinion K keyed on a driven shaft L. ieu of a toothed gear a friction gear may be used.

invention to show a continuous current of a pulverous .substance, say powdered sugar. Fig. 3 is a general view of a similar arrangement as In the modification shown in Fig. 3 two bottles B are suspended above the receptacle A and a filtering device M and a speed or pressure regulating device Q are inserted in through the pump E. The latter is driven by a small electric motor P and a belt drive. The liquid is forced by the pump through the conduit D into a reservoir Q, arranged at a certain height above the vessel A. From the reservoir Q, the liquid flows down through the conduit D from which it is forced through the branches D D into the bottles B; Each of said branches D D is provided with a regulating valve D D respectivel v v To obtain a constantly uniform current neck,

from the bottles B the power or force of the pump is a little in excess of the capacity of the conduit D and an overflow pipe R is provided in connection with the reservoir Q to maintain therein a normal level by returning the surplus liquid in Q to the vessel M.

In an exhibition device the combination of a container for fluids, having a neck, or spout, said neck or spout being in an inclined position, a tube entering said neck or 1 spout, and means for forcing fluid through said tube into said container, said tube being bent to conform to the trajectory formed by the liquid as it flows out of said or spout, whereby said tube may be concealed in the stream of falling liquid.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HANS KEMPINSKI.

Witnesses:

BERNHARD GRAETZ, RICHARD KINDLER. 

